| Level | Series |
| Ref No | Duncan/001/11 |
| Title | Articles 1953-1965 |
| Date | 1953-1965 |
| Extent | 5-packets |
| Description | Material consists of handwritten and printed papers authored by David C.Duncan on a variety of occupational matters during the period 1953 to 1965.
The papers are as follows:
Typescript paper [with notes] entitled 'Four Years Later: A Follow-up of an Experiment in Selection Supervisors' co-authored with John D.Handyside and published in Occupational Psychology, Vol.28, pp.9-23 1954
'On the Importance of Communication in Industry' [David Duncan's first attempt at publication], unpublished 1954
'Introducing the school leaver to the office', unpublished 1954
'A New Method of Recording Labour Losses' reprinted from The Manager, January 1955
'Personnel Factors in Maintaining Efficiency' lecture to Royal Institute of Public Administration, November 1957
'Statistics of an Auction Sale' reprinted from Applied Statistics, Vol.VII, No.1, 1958 [2-copies]
'Confidence as an Integrating Concept in Psychology and Economics', handwritten paper and typescript summary of a paper delivered to Section J (Psychology) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, August 1958
'The Sociological Significance of Confidence' [much handwritten material] a talk given to the Progressive League, July 1957
'Summary of Talks to be given at the Conference of the British Psychological Society on 18th of April (Symposium on Psychology and Economics)' with David Duncan's handwritten notes, 1958
(also included is a typed letter from David Duncan to Leonard Bloom on confidence, April 1999)
'The Glasgow School of Architecture, Town and Country Planning Post Graduate Diploma Course Session 1961-62-Social and Economic Organization', a lecture by D.C.Duncan ACC/104
'On Not Living in London' article for Glasgow Herald Trade Review, [published] 1960
'People in Towns-Describing Modern Society originally delivered by D C.Duncan as part of a course on Microeconomies-The Psychology of Economics at The Dept. of Extramural Education University of Glasgow, 1963
'Confidence, Trust and Faith-A Psychologist's View of Religion', a talk delivered at St.George's West Church, Edinburgh 7th March 1963
'Staff Development Schemes-Contrasting Cases' summary of paper delivered by D.C. Duncan to the annual conference of the British Psychological Society at Belfast 6th April 1967
'Principles and Practice of Management Selection' 1963
'Interim Recommendations on Computing Procedure' a procedure study for Attwood Statistics Ltd by David Duncan during in his time as Manager Ad Hoc. Surveys 1958
'Television Advertising-Measurement of Audience Size and Programme Impact', talk given at BPS Annual Conference Hull 1960 [2-copies]
'Sales Training in Industry', book review by David Duncan for Occupational Psychology Vol.32 p.214 1958
'Recruitment and Training of Market Researchers' D.C.Duncan for Team Ltd 1980
'Consumer Research Techniques' 1960
David Duncan has supplied a handwritten contextualisation with each bundle of documents.
Also included is a handwritten letter from David C. Duncan concerning future deposits of material to the British Psychological Society's archive (2008) |
| Format | Text and Figures |
| Notes | The History of Psychology Centre is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our users. Be aware that our catalogue contains historic terminology relating to mental health which could be considered offensive. The terminology exists within the original record and has been retained to inform users on viewpoints at the time. It in no way reflects the attitudes of the cataloguers or the British Psychological Society. |
| Wellcome Ref: PSY/DUN/11 |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | BPS/001/6/01/02 Annual Conference |
| RelatedRecord | BPS/001/6/01/02 |
| BPS/001/6/01/02/01 |
| AccessConditions | Authorised Users. View by Appointment |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 16: Wellcome Library |
| Term | Occupational psychology |
| Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Mike Maskill BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| BPS/GB/98 | Duncan; David Conochie (1926-2009); AFBPsS | 1926-2009 |